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Marcel Broersma is Professor and director of the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies at the University of Groningen. His research examines the use of social media in journalism and politics, shifting patterns of news use, emerging forms and styles of journalism, and the epistemology of journalism. He is the author of numerous journal articles, books and book chapters. Joëlle Swart is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Her research focuses on the crossroads of digital media use, journalism and citizenship. Recently, she published her PhD thesis titled 'Haven’t you heard?" on the connective role of news and journalism in everyday life. Her work on news audiences has been published in several international academic journals, including Journalism Studies, Media, Culture & Society, Digital Journalism and New Media & Society. Chris Peters is Associate Professor of Media and Communication at Aalborg University’s Copenhagen campus, Denmark. His research investigates the changing experiences, conceptions and spatiotemporal aspects of information in a digital era, and the sociocultural transformations associated with this in everyday life. His work is especially focused on news audiences and the meanings people make from journalism. His books include Rethinking Journalism (Routledge, 2013) and Rethinking Journalism Again (Routledge, 2016, both with Marcel Broersma), and he is currently working on The Visual Citizen (Oxford University Press, forthcoming, with Stuart Allan).